Research

Research

We invest in people, their skills and their relationships with stakeholders to build bridges between research, rural development and agribusiness.

Want to see your research translated into tangible interventions, making an impact on society?

iCRA believes that research can have a positive and long-lasting impact on society when translated into tangible solutions. Our services for knowledge and research institutes support the design of entrepeneurial, market-driven research programs. To develop the agricultural expertise, innovations and technologies demanded by agribusinesses, we support research coordinators and innovations facilitators through training and facilitative leadership.

Capacity needs assessment

To make sure research and interventions match the need of communities and the overall agriculture sector, iCRA facilitates participatory, capacity needs assessments and trainings with and for farmer organizations, agri-food SME's and business advisory services. We support them to engage and function in effective partnerships with research and knowledge institutes.

These capacity needs assessments are also incredibly valuable within your own research orgaization. iCRA's capacity needs assessments are designed to gain insight into what is needed to enable research staff to bridge the gap between theory and practice. This results in an organizational strengthening advice that builds upon the expertise of staff and is specifically tailored to your organization or institute.

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Capacity needs assessments

To strengthen an organisation, you need to strengthen its people. iCRA's capacity needs assessment is designed to gain insight into what is needed to enable people to bridge that gap between theory and practice. This will result in an organisational strengthening advise that builds upon the expertise of staff and works for your organisation specifically.

Tailor-made-trainings

Based on the outcomes of the capacity needs assessments; iCRA offers different options for our tailor-made trainings: a single training event, one-week sprint or learning cycles trajectory over a longer period of time.This will result in a team that can develop exciting research, curriculum and strategies that makes research work for Agribusiness.